Elite: Dangerous Ruined my Day…

So I was planning on recording a bunch of videos today, you know? Covering all manner of spacey gaming goodness that y’all hopefully come to expect of me. Then, I find out that the Gamma version of Elite: Dangerous has launched, and I try a few missions. “This seems fun,” I thought to myself, “I should stream a little bit of this on Twitch…”

FOUR FREAKING HOURS LATER, I got nothing done, except a bunch of cargo runs, a few interdictions, some awesome voice chat and even some combat. I think I’ve put in maybe 5-6 hours TODAY in today, before, during and after the stream. SHEESH.

So while the good news is, here’s a four hour video from Twitch of me playing the game which is hopefully fun to watch, the downside is that content might be light this coming week. It’s a holiday here in the US anyway this week, so I’ll also blame that. ;) The video has to be watched on Twitch because it’s too big to export to YouTube, no lie. I’m putting the video behind a cut because it autoplays and I can’t figure out how to turn it off because it’s set to “false” in the embed code and yet it’s still playing anyway. Enjoy! ;)

Welcome to the comments sflw! You raise some great points. What I think is that they likely have an internal version that is miles ahead of what we’re playing, and that’s what we’ll see at launch. I surmise this from seeing the leap in gameplay between just the beta and gamma versions.

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